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Israel / Business and Economy / The Environment

Israel Raises $2 Billion in First Ever Green Bond Issue

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

A green bond enables investors in the capital market to be connected to the government’s sustainability and environmental goals and to help promote these goals.

Israel / The Environment

Environment Minister Calls for Halt to Eilat Beach Water Line Construction

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

The minister from Meretz called on the city to stop and dismantle all their beachfront construction.

Weather

Are Our Opinions Affected by the Weather? This Israeli Study Explains How

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

The weather one experiences has an influence on the opinions he expresses, and in turn, on those who are influenced by these expressed opinions, a new Israel study has found.

Israel / US / Left vs. Right / The Environment

Sierra Club Bows to Anti-Israel Activists and Cancels Trips to Israel

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

Complaints said the organization was engaging in “greenwashing,” ignoring the Palestinians and instead focusing on the Jewish state’s environmental values and practice.

Palestinian Authority / The Environment / Judea & Samaria

How the PA is Polluting Judea and Samaria

By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency

The PA is the primary and almost sole environmental contaminator in Judea and Samaria in multiple facets.

Government / The Environment / Weather

Bennett Declares Tackling 'Climate Crisis' a New Israeli National Security Interest

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

“The climate crisis is one of the major issues on the world agenda. It concerns the lives of all of us,” says the Israeli prime minister.

Government / News Briefs / The Environment

Environmental Protection Ministry Demand NIS 48 Million from Bottling Companies Over Deposit Compliance Failures

By Gil Tanenbaum / TPS

Tamar Zandberg: “The manufacturers and importers of the beverage containers must bear full responsibility for their collection, transfer for recycling, and return of the deposit to the public by law."

Israel / News Briefs / The Environment

Israel to Switch Away from Coal Energy by 2025, Netanyahu Says

By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency

Israel is already a world leader in water purification, recycling and desalination.

Israel / The Environment

4.3 Earthquake Shakes Eilat

By Jewish Press News Desk

Elections, storm, pandemic and now earthquakes...

Israel / News Briefs / Business and Economy

Seeking Clean Energy, Israel to Build Hundreds of Wind Turbines up North

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

This is part of a series of projects to develop renewable energy sources for Israel.

Israel / Haredim & Hassidim / Science and Tech

Crop-Disease Detection in Drones wins Orthodox Men’s ‘Great Minds Hackathon’

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

More than 100 Orthodox and Ultra-Orthodox students from Israel and dozens of other countries took part in the fourth annual Jerusalem College of Technology hackathon, working for 48 hours on innovative projects and designs.

Israel / News Briefs / Business and Economy / The Environment

Israeli Energy Minister: ‘the Age of Coal-Use in Israel Will End by 2025’

By Arye Green / TPS

Steinitz said he is considering setting a goal of 25%-30% for renewable energy production in Israel.

The Knesset / Health and Medicine

Knesset Committee Approves Turning Israel into No Smoking Zone

By JNi.Media

The Health Ministry will soon submit for the committee’s approval a directive extending the smoking ban in bars and restaurants.

The Knesset / Business and Economy

Israel's Anti-Plastic Bag Law Increased the Sale of Plastic Bags

By Jewish Press News Desk

There's nothing quite like the law of unintended consequences, which will trump social engineering legislation any day of the week.

Headline / Politics / Police and Crime / Palestinian Authority / Judea & Samaria / Health and Medicine / Settlements

Palestina Carcinogenica: Illegal Arab Hazardous Material Fires Endanger Jewish Lives

By JNi.Media

There are currently about 200 illegal burning sites, scattered from the southern Hebron hills to northern Samaria.

Government / Business and Economy / Science and Tech / European Union

Agricultural Pest Threatens Israeli Exports to European Union

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Historically, the moth has been found mainly in Africa, but in recent years has caused increasing damage in Israel as well.

Government / News Briefs / Business and Economy / Local

Haifa Chemicals Employees Protest Layoffs

By Jewish Press News Desk

The giant ammonia tank was deemed a major health, environmental and security hazard for years.

Video of the Day

The Paris Climate Agreement Won't Change the Climate

By Video of the Day

The Paris Climate Agreement will cost at least $1 trillion per year, and climate activists say it will save the planet. The truth?

Israel / Politics / News Briefs / Business and Economy / Science and Tech / Russia

Israel Exports 500 Million Predatory Insects, Bumblebees, to Russia

By JNi.Media

Israeli innovation offers a viable solution to a major problem plaguing world agriculture, combining non-toxic pest control in a growing number of crops, with a plan to revitalize the bumblebee hives around the world.

Goldstein on Gelt

How to Invest for Retirement in a Low-Interest Rate Environment

By Doug Goldstein, CFP®

Three tools that may help you to invest for retirement in today’s low-interest environment and shares his predictions for inflation and interest rates.

US / Politics / Elections / News Briefs

Kerry Tweets that Trump Is Disqualified to Run for President

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

The Secretary of State has decided that anyone who doubts global warming is unfit to sit in the White House.

News Briefs / The Knesset / Business and Economy

Knesset Approves Part of Natural Gas Framework Deal

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

The Knesset approved part of the natural gas framework Monday by a 59-51 vote after two years of constant threats by natural gas companies to pull out of the development of off-shore energy fields. However, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu postponed a vote on the critical part of the deal that gives the government full authority […]

Israel / News Briefs / France / Science and Tech

Southern Israel Solar Field of 134 Acres Connected to Electric Grid

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

The solar energy field of at Kibbutz Ketura cost $79 million and consists of 140,743 solar panels.

Israel / News Briefs

Israeli Nature Reserve Director Wins International Award for Wetland Preservation

By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency

The Israeli wetlands are among the 2,208 Ramsar wetland sites from across 169 countries around the world.

Israel / News Briefs

Helsinki Environmental 'World Village' Bans Jewish National Fund

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

The festival also blocked a Freedom of Speech Village that was to include an "I am Charlie" exhibition.

Photo of the Day

Greenpeace Protests Against Drilling for Oil

By Photo of the Day

"Greenpeace" members protested the exploration drilling for oil on the Golan Heights on February 02, 2015. The Afek oil and gas company is set to do some exploratory drilling this week. At least it wasn't the Syrians protesting.

Israel / News Briefs

‘Race against Time’ To Contain Oil Spill Disaster in Eilat

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

This is the season to pray for rain, but precipitation in the Arava would worsen the disaster by gushing the oil to Eilat.

News Briefs / The Knesset / Business and Economy

Israel's Controversial Plastic Bag Law Delayed

By Jewish Press News Desk

MK Miri Regev said the law is a difficult and complicated one, and it requires a serious discussion about its downsides, and therefore shouldn't be rushed into implementation.

The Muqata

Knesset Eco-Terrorism Bill Hurts Shoppers, Hurts Environment and Hurts Pocketbook

By JoeSettler

The "bag tax" is eco-terrorism against the Israeli consumer. Have our MK's reviewed any studies on its environmental impact, or is it all just touchy-feely?

Israel / Global / News Briefs / Science and Tech / On Campus / Education

Israelis Invent Revolutionary Alternative Fuel

By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency

Forget about ethanol, electric cars and vegetable oil as alternative, researchers at Ben Gurion University have come up with a new substitute for oil: water and good’ol carbon dioxide.

News Briefs / Palestinian Authority / "Peace" Process / Normalization / Abraham Accords

'Dream Road' from Gush Etzion to Dead Sea May Explode Peace Talks

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

While Abbas insists that a Palestinian Authority state will include all of the Jordan Valley, Israel plans facts on the ground to dissect it with a “dream road” from Gush Etzion to the Dead Sea.

Israel / News Briefs

Israel First Electric Bus Debuts in Tel Aviv

By Jewish Press News Desk

Tel Aviv residents began riding on Israel’s first electric bus Tuesday, several weeks after the Better Place electric car venture filed for bankruptcy, The Dan Bus Company invested $112 million for the orange-colored pollution-free bus, whose route takes it from the city’s central bus station to the Arlozorov train station. It can run approximately four […]

Jewish / US / News Briefs

Empire Kosher Fined for Environmental Violations

By JTA

Empire Kosher Poultry was fined $99,000 by Pennsylvania’s Department of Environmental Protection for repeat violations dating back to 2008. The infractions at America’s largest kosher poultry producer, which has its plant in Mifflintown, Pa., included chemical spills, discharge of untreated industrial wastewater into the nearby Juniata River, improper storage of solid waste and a lack […]

Serials

Freedom Is the Ownership of Time

By Itamar Frankenthal

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